[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 24/30] efi: Adjust memory handling to support sandbox

[Alexander Graf]

On 06/18/2018 04:08 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Sandbox does not support direct casts between addresses and pointers,
> since it uses an emulated RAM buffer rather than directly using host
> RAM.
>
> The current EFI code uses an integer type for addresses, but treats them
> like pointers.
>
> Update the code to maintain a (reasonably) clear separation between the
> two, so that sandbox can work.
>
> Unfortunately there remains an inconsistency between the arguments of
> allocate_pages() and allocate_pool(). One takes an address and one takes
> a pointer. Partly this seems to be defined by the boot services API itself
> but it would be fairly easy to update the functions in efi_memory.c to be
> consistent. However, this is a larger change and needs discussion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

This also seems to be fallout of a misinterpretation of the API :)


Alex